Amiga Arena Interview


*Please Introduce yourself for the Readers!

Hi, I'm Andrew Crowe of MantaSoft.
I have made many Amiga PD games and a small number of utilities.
Currently my most famous creation is 'James Bond: You Only Live Twice',
which was described in AF as 'the best game of the month' :)

I've now started to write commercial games,
my first one to be released was Pictris,
and I now have two other in the works:
Blast Squad, a really good version of the classic Super Bomberman
and Solar Conquest,
a space stratagy game like Civilisation,and with internet play support.

*Since did you Start to Work with the Amiga?

Must be since about '96

*Which Amiga Modell have you got?

A1200 with 040/25 and PPC 240.

*Which Amiga OS Version is used by you?

3.1

*Which Software Develope you?

I have made various freeware games including Wizards of Odd and James Bond.
I have also made a few utilities such as AsciiStudio and Serial Paint

*Would you continue Develope for your Software?

I am :)

*Get you enough Feedback and Registration for you Software?

Well, I got a little feedback from my games.
A didn't really get any registrations at all from my shareware stuff
but I don't mind ;)
Now I have started commercial development,
I should make a little more :)

*Would you Develope your Software for the AmigaOne?

I dont know how to yet

*Would you change to the New Amiga?

Probably

*When have you used your Amiga at last?

Um, to answer this questionnare?  :)

*Which was your last Soft/Hardware Product you buy?

A replacement CD-Rom drive

*Which Software used you on you Amiga?

Mainly internet software.
I also play a few old games, and do development

*Which Soft/Hardware would you buy in the Future?

Maybe an SCSI harddrive,
maybe then that new PCI bus and a gfx card

*Do you belive on the Amiga comeback?

Hopefully, especially as it is a replacement opperating system now,
so existing PC users can use their decent hardware with a decent OS :)

Thank you for your Answer!


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